Abstract:The
problem of latency in data acquisition, which is specific to the case of mobile
wireless sensor networks, has been introduced and investigated. In this regard,
the properties of the so-called Data Acquisition Latency error, and the way it
affects the performance of the respective localization schemes in a mobile
network are discussed through both theoretical analysis and simulations.
Moreover, a weighted version of lateration scheme is introduced and shown to
outperform the traditional one, while tracking a mobile node. This work is to
the best of the authors’ knowledge the first to have addressed the
aforementioned problem for localization in mobile wireless sensor networks, and
to have offered a solution for its alleviation.